From: "Robert Comer" 

> Yes, IBM tried to recapture control over PC hardware. It didn't work,
> since open market hardware was already available. Terms matter, even
> more than marginal technical advantage. IBM's mismanagement of the PC
> platform snowballed, its earlier blunders leading it into later ones.

No doubt about that.

> I vaguely recall hearing something about those, but didn't experience
> them myself because I used OS/2: a (company) notebook PC with Windows,
> an OS/2 partition, and a shared data drive.  What I used was on OS/2,
> even Lotus Notes. Thus I never had those random crashes under Windows.

You're lucky -- I still have win95 and Win98 PC's under my control at work.
1 crash a day is a good day. OS/2 was definitely better, but as John
Beamish said, app software wasn't. (And that's a problem Linux has to
overcome as well.)

- Bob Comer



"Egan Orion"  wrote in message
news:3e61eaa4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Robert Comer wrote:
> > Hi Egan, nice to see you around here again!
>
> Thanks.
>
> > Microchannel was yet another better computer product that didn't win
(plug
> > and play that really worked!) -- IBM's problem with it was licensing and
> > pricing.
>
> Yes, IBM tried to recapture control over PC hardware. It didn't work,
> since open market hardware was already available. Terms matter, even
> more than marginal technical advantage. IBM's mismanagement of the PC
> platform snowballed, its earlier blunders leading it into later ones.
>
> > Have you forgot the Win3.1 resource problems, the Win95 Win16Mutex
lockups
> > and plug and play that never plugged and played well, not to mention the
> > memory leaks and just general instability of Win95 for years that never
was
> > solved. Even after they revved it several times up through WinME.
>
> I vaguely recall hearing something about those, but didn't experience
> them myself because I used OS/2: a (company) notebook PC with Windows,
> an OS/2 partition, and a shared data drive.  What I used was on OS/2,
> even Lotus Notes. Thus I never had those random crashes under Windows.
>
> BTW, I do something similar now with Linux. I recently wrote a Linux
> channel marketing tool in Excel VBA for IBM, on Linux under CrossOver
> Office. Except for a couple of trivial glitches, it works very well.
>
> Egan
>

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